Just months after Abbas’ advisor invented a 6,000-year-old Palestinian people, the mayor of Jericho has now invented a 10,000 ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Archaeologists excavating the remains of a Roman city in Portugal have discovered a rare bronze inkwell filled with the ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

Throughout America’s history, Thanksgiving has been celebrated in times of difficulty and dissension. People from diverse ...

Linseed oil may be the oldest wood finish known to man, with evidence of linseed oil finishes being applied to wood as far back as ancient Egypt.

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points ...

In Pythagoras' harmony of the spheres, celestial bodies follow mathematical proportions that correspond to musical intervals.